From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] gnu: Add polkit service. Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:26:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87383tq43f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1429087555.937607.30170@badger> <87zj65b1r8.fsf@gnu.org> <87fv7uvccc.fsf@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkTW6-0005pW-Aw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:26:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkTW3-0003mX-3R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:26:50 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkTW3-0003mT-1E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:26:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fv7uvccc.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:17:23 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andy Wingo skribis: > On Sat 18 Apr 2015 22:49, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: [...] >> but that makes me wonder whether there=E2=80=99s >> a piece missing. Does polkitd need to be given some sort of >> configuration or a list of applications being managed? > > It might need a list of applications or a profile directory. The deal > is that applications install .conf snippets into a certain polkit > directory, which should probably be one of those symlink trees, like > dbus. The "service" side of polkit is something of a work in progress, > but I figured works-in-progress aren't so bad given that polkit is > completely unusable currently (AFAICS). So does polkitd provide useful functionality when it is not passed a list of application .conf files, as is the case with the current patch? I=E2=80=99m happy to apply it if it does, but otherwise I guess we should a= dd the missing bits. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.